NEW EXPLOSIVES SCANNER WINS EU RESEARCH AWARD
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW explosives scanner, quick to use and able to probe tiny cracks, has won a European research award. The technology has been developed in a Euro 760,000 project by Czech high-tech company RS Dynamics with Spanish engineering company SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas. It received the Lynx award for outstanding technological achievement from EU research network EUREKA. The sniffer can detect microscopic traces of explosives on luggage, clothes, laptops, mobile phones, banknotes or identity cards. Its major advance is its needle probe that detects ...
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